Thank
you for your enormous responses to this series. I’m extending
it to four parts because of your countless emails. One writer said that,
“Too many Americans are stuck on stupid and clogged colons. They
shifted from good foods to junk foods and never stopped eating until
they lost control of their bodies. Most Americans could be contenders
on the TV show “Big Losers.”

One
reader said, “Bless you for speaking up. I am 82 years old and
have been a vegetarian for the past 60 years and enjoy wonderful energy,
health and use no medications.”

Another
writer said, “I tried vegetarianism for several years, but lost
20 pounds and felt weak. I had to return to eating meat and haven’t
recovered the weight or strength.”

One
fellow wrote, “My dad ate anything he wanted and lived to 95 so
that shoots your vegetarian theory all to hell.” To that statement,
if you are one of the lucky lotto folks with genes to withstand any
culinary abuse, count your blessings.

One
writer said, “God didn’t make bad foods for humans to eat.
We created processed foods, so don’t eat them. Also, you can’t
get enough protein on a vegetarian diet alone. You need meat and eggs
for your protein.”

In
fact, as the speaker in the video stated, “There are 600 million
vegetarians worldwide. India leads with 399 million vegetarians more
than the rest of the world combined.”

As
a vegetarian for 41 years, I enjoy plenty of protein from rice and beans,
corn and beans (succotash), tempeh, tofu, soy, nuts, legumes, peas and
such fruits as bananas. Notably, it’s highly efficient protein
that the body digests with ease. If you can imagine swimming a half
mile every morning six days a week, running a mile, pedaling a cycle
20 minutes uphill and lifting weights for 45 minutes—total of
two hours of hardcore physical activity six days a week—you realize
that I gain enough protein from vegetarian cuisine to maintain excellent
health. Even on the road this summer for my eighth bicycle trip across
America, I maintained excellent strength and endurance on my vegetarian
diet.

Additionally,
on the standard American diet, eating to elimination runs from 72 to
90 hours. Meat and dairy consumers suffer their food moving through
the colon so slowly because of lack of fiber that they develop diverticulitis
and other severe problems. Ultimately, “In America, it is estimated
that 50 percent of Americans suffer from hemorrhoid disease by the age
of 50. There are 1 million new cases of hemorrhoids each year in the
United States alone, with 10 to 20 percent of those cases needing surgical
intervention.” (Source: www.HDtreatmentcenter.com )

Eating
to elimination for high fiber vegetarians runs every 24 hours. In other
words, the food is flying through our colons with rapid ease and efficiency.
If every American maintained 40 grams of fiber in their diets daily,
those disease figures could be cut to nearly zero. Human suffering and
pain would be cut enormously. Medical care would drop by the billions
of dollars.

As
to the one writer saying that we need to eat meat, eggs and milk, it
is simply not true. No other species continues to suckle milk after
infancy like Americans. Additionally, consuming cow milk is not good
because cow milk is molecularly diametrically different than human milk.
We would be better off consuming goat milk, which is closer to human
milk in molecular makeup.

As
to animal protein ingestion, our consumption of meat, eggs and milk
leads the world. But we also lead the world in obesity, cancer, high
blood pressure and heart attacks. If I had followed my father’s
and brother’s eating habits, I would be dead right now from a
heart attack.

On
an environmental note, it takes 5,000 gallons of water to create each
pound of beef on a cow. That creates horrific urine and fecal waste
that is polluting our ground water in major dairy and beef farming states.
Worse, a beef cow must eat 16 pounds of grain to add one pound of beef.
To grow that much grain, farmers poison the soils with fertilizer, pesticides
and herbicides. That’s why 100 percent of our rivers suffer horrible
pollution, which ultimately poisons our oceans where the rivers exhaust
their deadly contents. The carbon footprint for planting, cultivating,
harvesting and transporting that much grain explodes to astronomical
levels. Consequently, this country is well into Overshoot by Dr. William
Catton. We cannot maintain such a way of life especially with the projected
138 million humans added to this civilization within 38 years. We are
eating, growing, consuming and wrecking our water, land and air at a
prodigious rate of speed.

Americans
slaughter 100,000 beef cows every day of the year to eat, which adds
up to 36.5 million annually. We also slaughter and eat 23 million chickens
daily or 269 chickens every second. It equals 8.3 billion annually.
We kill 100 million pigs every year. We rape the oceans for their fish
by the billions upon billions of tons of marine life. By mid century,
we will have collapsed most species of fish that we feed upon. It terms
of mass murder of other species, it’s pretty sobering. While I
began as a vegetarian for health reasons, I’m glad I’m not
a part of that kind of killing spree.

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Because
of your terrific responses, I felt that I should clarify what it means
to be a meat eater and some of its consequences. That means the series
will run to Part 4: how to avoid cancers and heart attacks. You’re
going to find it stunningly insightful because most Americans or their
loved ones are affected by heart attacks and cancer. Let’s change
that equation for those of you who care about living vibrant and healthy
lives. Don’t ever count on pharmaceutical companies or doctors
to give you the kind of information that you will find in this series.
They all make a lot of money because of these preventable diseases.

Part
4: If you’re in trouble as to cancer or heart disease, I will
suggest two books that will change your health picture like no others.
This information will change your life toward a healthy, long one. Avoid
waiting for doctors to prescribe synthetic chemical pills to alleviate
your pain or problem. You will discover how to take charge of your body
temple.

Listen
to Frosty Wooldridge on Wednesdays as he interviews
top national leaders on his radio show "Connecting the Dots"
at www.themicroeffect.com
at 6:00 PM Mountain Time. Adjust tuning in to your time zone.

Frosty
Wooldridge possesses a unique view of the world, cultures and families
in that he has bicycled around the globe 100,000 miles, on six continents
and six times across the United States in the past 30 years. His published
books include: "HANDBOOK FOR TOURING BICYCLISTS"; “STRIKE THREE! TAKE
YOUR BASE”; “IMMIGRATION’S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES”; “MOTORCYCLE
ADVENTURE TO ALASKA: INTO THE WIND—A TEEN NOVEL”; “BICYCLING AROUND
THE WORLD: TIRE TRACKS FOR YOUR IMAGINATION”; “AN EXTREME ENCOUNTER:
ANTARCTICA.” His next book: “TILTING THE STATUE OF LIBERTY INTO A SWAMP.”
He lives in Denver, Colorado.

As to animal protein
ingestion, our consumption of meat, eggs and milk leads the world. But
we also lead the world in obesity, cancer, high blood pressure and heart
attacks. If I had followed my father’s and brother’s eating
habits, I would be dead right now from a heart attack.